Newport News High School - Anchor Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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At Jlait Ant MIKE MORRIS and Buddy Early repre- sent the long and short of my band classes. But height has nothing to do with ability and skill in playing a musi- cal instrument. It is through the band classes that my musicians acquire tech nical proficiency in playing an instru- ment. Class work includes exercises, prac- tice in direction and work on band num- bers. FUTURE ARTISTS create beauty with pencil, char- coal, pastels, water colors, and oils. Some of them work with clay and finger painting. On pretty days, the art classes go on field trips to do landscape sketching. The students also do life sketching, still life and fashions. From the best of these, one work is chosen each week and put on exhibit in the library. HARMONIZING quartets, such as this one, are fun for my music students. In the chorus classes, the funda- mentals of choral singing are learned and the group works on music for outside performances. All my stu- dents are required to take music. 19

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Adding Acting and RADIO SPEECH is another new course in my curriculum and is given as Speech 4 un- der the instruction of Mrs. Ma- rion Ciedemann. Students pre- pare short plays to give on my weekly radio show, and learn to control their voices. These students are rehearsing Shake Hands With a Ghost for the Hallowe ' en program while their classmates serve as critics. A STUDENT DIRECTOR prepares a director ' s manuscript, makes a costume chart, sets the stage, and finally directs the prepared play as does this student in her second year of drama. The directors choose their casts from fellow classmates. PRACTICING MAKE-UP technique this drama student, Joe Thomas, applies character paint to a classmate. Drama students, know- ing how to apply make-up well, have helped the community with minstrels, plays, pag- eants, and opera. 18

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